A Collection of Hand-Painted Movie Posters From Africa

This art form in African countries was at its peak during the 1980s and 1990s. During this time, artists would let their imagination run wild in order to create posters that would never fail to draw audiences to Africa’s dilapidated cinema halls, so they used their fantasy to add scenes, weapons, and characters that didn’t even exist in the original movie.

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There are a lot of white people on those posters. The only white people in Africa I am aware of live in SA. I guess they will be moving back to Holland pretty soon as they will have no where to live? Then who will buy the tickets?

Again, none of the above are me, and I used to live in Harare, so I am well aware of at least Zimbabwe’s diversity. Africa, of course, is a continent comprised of many countries, each with a different culture.

And may I say, should you ever have the opportunity to visit Lake Kariba, take it. I don’t recommend swimming, though. Schistosomiasis.

@Former-Rattus do you consider diversity when the population is of different races or when it’s not white race? Because we hear people saying a 99% black population has diversity, when in fact it does not.